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| Get Certified in Public Health (CPH)! |
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| Registration is closed for the 2012 CPH exam. ALL Scheduling Permits are now available for candidates for the February 2012 exam. The NBPHE is exploring multiple exam cycles per year. Though no dates have been confirmed, it’s very likely the next cycle will be in February 2013.
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Public health professionals face the challenges of confronting complex health issues, such as controlling infectious diseases, reducing environmental hazards, public health preparedness and substance abuse, on a daily basis.
With all of these serious challenges, public health professionals need to stay at the forefront of their field. This is accomplished by thoroughly understanding the interaction between the different specialized areas of public health, learning new strategies to cope with disasters, and constantly working to stay two steps ahead of any threat. The CPH credential helps to achieve these evolving goals.
| Becoming a Certified Public Health (CPH) Professional Has Multiple Benefits: |
- Demonstrate commitment to public health beyond your academic training
- Show public health expertise by evidencing mastery of the core sciences of public health
- Protect the public by staying current in public health
- Distinguish yourself from others
- Advance cohesiveness and collaboration with your professional peers by starting from a common foundation
- Elevate the profession of public health
- Ensure high standards that better serve the health of the public
- Assure the community that you serve/protect that you maintain a
national, professional standard
- Students at some institutions may substitute for a local comprehensive exam and earn CPH at the same time
- Increase recognition of the public health professions
- Raise the visibility of public health
- Measure and improve the competency and consistency of public health workers nationwide
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The exam is rooted in the five basic core competencies of public health to reflect the nature of the field and the way one area of knowledge blends into another. The certification exam is administered to graduates of and students at CEPH-accredited schools and programs of public health.
The new credentialing opportunity for public health professionals has arrived! |
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